Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel sourcebook 1. History 1.1 Rebellion at the Mariposa base 1.2 Nuclear armageddon 1.3 Arrival at the Lost Hill Bunker 1.4 The birth of the Brotherhood 1.5 The mutant threat 1.6 The brotherhood is split in two 1.7 The coming of the Enclave 1.8 The western brotherhood today 2. The western brotherhood 2.1 Organisation 2.2 Recruiting 2.3 Culture 2.4 Economics 2.5 Logistics 2.6 Spheres of influence 3. The eastern brotherhood 3.1 History 3.2 Recruiting 3.3 Culture 3.4 Economics 3.5 Logistics 3.6 Spheres of influence 4. Personalities 4.1 Historical personalities Roger Maxson Marion Vree Simon Barnaky 4.2 Current personalities Jared Arnson Brent Anchor Daryl Mckenzie 5. Traits 6. Brotherhood rank table 6.1 Western brotherhood 6.2 Eastern brotherhood 7. Perks 7.1 Perks available to both the western and eastern brotherhood 7.2 Perks available to the western brotherhood 7.3 Perks available to the eastern brotherhood 8. Vehicles 8.1 “Steel Eagle” Vertibird 8.2 Airship 8.3 APC 8.4 Scouter 9. The brotherhood in games 9.1 Incorporating the brotherhood in campaigns 9.2 Playing a brotherhood Player-Character 9.3 Playing brotherhood NPCs Introduction This document is intended as a source of information for players who are including the brotherhood in their campaign, or are playing brotherhood characters. Much of the information in this document is totally unofficial and original, due to a lack of good official information about the brotherhood, and you may not agree with everything in this document (in which case you are of course free to change it to your hearts content). I do however think that where I have added new material, that it strengthens the atmosphere of the brotherhood, rather than detracting from it. You will need a copy of the Fallout PnP rulebook by Jason Mical (available at http://www.iamapsycho.com/fallout) to play. Please not that this is only a beta version of the sourcebook, released early because of the e-mails I keep getting wondering when it will be finished. As you can see, the text sections are all finished, but images have not yet been added and I hope to have the complete version ready within a month. If you have any suggestions to make this book better please contact me at [email protected]. Have fun! 1. History (This is a heavily modified version of the “Brotherhood of Steel history” by Yamu, so all credits for this go to him) Rebellion at the Mariposa base instant uproar. The soldiers could not believe what was being done to their The story begins in January 1st, 2077, when brothers in arms and all order collapsed at the government of the Unites States the base. The base commander locked transferred all research of the Forced himself in his office and refused to come Evolutionary Virus (FEV-2) to the US out. The third world war broke out on the army installation at Mariposa in central same day as the soldiers discovered the California. The virus was being studied for horrifying truth of the experiments, and its mutational properties, and the this only served to aggravate the soldiers possibility of using it to make soldiers not further. only immune to bacteriological agents (as had been the purpose of the Pan-Immunity In this chaotic and frenzied atmosphere the Virus referred to as PIV or FEV-1), but soldiers looked to one man, captain Roger stronger, tougher and faster. Maxson, executive officer of the Mariposa facility. Maxson at first could not believe The research was carried out under utmost the experiments were being conducted, secrecy, so that only the base commander, then could not accept that they were being colonel Robert Spindel and the scientists sanctioned by the US government, but he and technicians working on the project had realised the need to bring some semblance any knowledge of what was being done. of organisation back to the base, and with The researchers were using human the colonel locked in his room and refusing “volunteers” from among the ranks of to do anything it was his duty to take enlisted soldiers listed as missing in action. charge. The hate felt by the soldiers for the For nearly eight months the scientists researchers was growing exponentially as managed to keep the research secret. Then they found out more and more about the on October 10th 2077 the base’s military research and discovered the mutated personnel somehow discovered what the remnants of the human guinea pigs and on researchers were doing and there was an October 12th, two days after the research was first discovered, captain Maxson had scientists accounts of the research were so to prevent one of his men from executing a remarkably similar, and by the time he scientist. executed Erin Shellman, he finally accepted that the vile research was being In order to try to cool the situation down sponsored by the government he and his Maxson decided that they should start men had served. interrogating the scientists as to their work. The first interrogation took place the next By October 20th, the facility had long since day. The first to be interrogated was stopped responding to transmissions from Robert Anderson, one of the FEV chief command and captain Maxson was researchers. With very little prompting, beginning to wonder why no-one was Anderson revealed all the details of the being sent to investigate the sudden seize research to captain Maxson and the other in transmissions. On that day, captain interrogators. As Maxson was considering Maxson and his men declared themselves what action to take next, Anderson, officially seceded from the union. For two perhaps sensing the danger of the situation days they waited, fearful and expectant, he was in, began crying and shouting over knowing that they all faced imminent and over that “they were just doing their court-martial. Nothing happened. Maxson job”. Maxson, under extreme stress and realised that the war must be facing some feeling intense disgust at the scientists pivotal moment, meaning that no resources research ended Anderson’s hysterical could be spared for domestic troubles. shouting with a single bullet to the head. Those two days, while Maxson and his This act seemed to confirm the captain’s men waited for something, the short war position as leader of the renegade soldiers, was in its final stages. Augmented by new though he himself refused to believe that technology, the US military was driving this work could have been sanctioned by the Chinese all the way back and deep in to the government that he had served so their own country. faithfully. Outside the small base the war was raging. Nuclear armageddon Two days later, on October 15th, captain One day later, on October 23rd, the world Maxson made a final attempt to reach ended. No one knows who fired first, but colonel Spindel, and smashed through the in less than two hours, humanity had been door to the colonel’s office just in time to almost entirely wiped out. The base see the base commander blow his head off. personnel were in the process of interrogating Leon VonFelden, head of the Captain Maxson was perceived by the men FEV research project when all contact with as “one of them” following the execution the outside was lost. of Anderson, and they were becoming increasingly loyal to him, perhaps because Maxson, ardent in the belief that the they were all facing court-martial and Chinese government, assuming it still Maxson, being a brave and honest warrior, existed, would sooner rather than later train was taking complete responsibility for the its sights on the base, issued the following recent chaos and their actions. In the days directive the next day: that followed the colonel’s death, Maxson continued to interrogate the scientists, each By my orders, as acting commanding interrogation invariably leading to officer following the untimely death of execution. As the interrogations wore on Colonel Robert Spindel during this time of Maxson became increasingly uncertain of crisis, the full base security team has been the government’s involvement, as the deployed to the security bunker at Lost I convinced the men that we should bury Hill. the scientists. I don't know why... perhaps This directive also includes the families of it was the officers and enlisted men. to ease my conscience. I finally started to believe their stories when the last one was Unless otherwise directed, from a proper dying. representative of the War Department, this My God, what have I become? order will stand as written. Operative 1: All military personnel, and The next day, October 27th, the military their families, are to vacate the base by personnel and their families began the 0800, 25 Oct 2077. All personnel, arduous trek to the Lost Hill security travelling under command, will make their bunker. The journey was dogged both by way to Lost Hill base. No leave has been the fear of nuclear fallout and bands of granted. humans who desperately attacked the Operative 2: All civilian personnel are group. Several of the soldiers lost family directed to remain at base, pending orders members to these attacks, but none of the from their legal command structure. attackers ever survived very long as they Operative 3: Equipment deemed necessary were hunted down and executed by the to the survival of base military personnel is soldiers. to be immediately drawn from stores. Proper authorisation will follow, time Arrival at the Lost Hill bunker permitting.